Horrible Stuff Up and Down New Federal Spending Bill
This is just a depressing AP article on federal budget expenditures, from beginning to end. This has everything you need...
McCaskill Targets Earmarks, Again
Combest has a number of links to articles today about Sen. Claire McCaskill’s repeated targeting of the earmark process in...
Tea Party Etiquette
Last night, Jenifer Roland (that is not a typo, she really just uses one “n”) and I were honored to...
The Post-Partisan Age of School Choice
Over at Cato@Liberty earlier today, Andrew Coulson commented on how school choice is becoming an increasingly post-partisan issue, as politicians...
School Choice Is the New Civil Rights Struggle
The Wall Street Journal ran an excellent editorial yesterday, by Brendan Miniter, pointing out that school choice has become a...
Nonpartisan Elections a Bad Idea for Franklin County
When it comes to elections, everyone wants the same thing: high voter turn-out and a well-informed electorate. Unfortunately, those two...
Earmark Vote in Washington, D.C.
Right now on KMOX, Mark Reardon is commenting — to put it mildly — about the vote today in the...
We’re Not Alone
Missouri isn’t the only state in which activists are calling for mandatory insurance coverage of autism treatments. Read this State...
Bartle’s Second Reply to Stouffer
Yesterday, I was privileged to testify at a hearing on Senate Bill 11, proposed legislation that would discontinue Missouri’s ethanol...
Calling All Third-Party Candidates
Missourinet has an interesting story about the Constitution Party in Missouri (link via Mr. Durrwachter-Combest). Because the party hit the...
Jefferson City Leadership and Saint Louis
The leadership teams that both parties will have during the next two years in Jefferson City have been announced. It...
Red-Light Camera Haters Unite
A benefit concert will be held this Saturday in south Saint Louis city, for people opposed to the use of...
Vice Presidents and Lieutenant Governors: Should They Be Abolished?
An op-ed in the LA Times (link via Freakonomics) advocates that we abolish the position of vice president. As I...
Corn Contention
Today, the Post-Dispatch editors chastised the leading Republican gubernatorial candidates for turning the Missouri ethanol mandate into a major campaign...
Remarriage?
Partisanship has long been divorced from most school elections in the United States. In fact, all school board elections in...
More Lunacy Regarding Anheuser-Busch
Criticism of the Anheuser-Busch deal has grown increasingly ridiculous. In a particularly glaring example of one-sided electioneering, the Post-Dispatch reveals...
Vice Lieutenants of the Board of Aldermen
There is a very enjoyable article today in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about a local expert on vice presidents, which...
Repealing a Constitutional Evil
Voters in the state of Florida will have the opportunity to eliminate a provision of their constitution that (according to...
It Must Be a “Mc” Thing
The U.S. Senate rejected today a proposal which would have placed new restrictions on congressional “earmark” bills. Earmarks are line-item...
Why Did the Sales Tax Cross the Road?
To try to stimulate the economy, Missouri may get another sales tax holiday: For three days in June, the GOP...
